Interfperfed with

Theatrical Anecdotes, Critical Remarks
on PLAYS, and Occafional Obfervations
on AUDIENCES.

Quod verum atque decens
Curo & rogo, & omnis in hoc fum.

HOR.

LONDON:

Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad, in
St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCCL.

TO THE

MANAGERS

OF THE

TWO THEATRES.

GENTLEMEN,

A

N author unknown to you, and who fhall ever remain fo, takes the liberty of laying before you an effay on the rules and laws of a profeffion, which it is greatly your Intereft to be acquainted with in its utmoft latitude. That you are at prefent perfectly informed of the full ex-. tent of many of them, we have, during the course of the laft Seafon, had abundant proof; there are, however, fome more effential ones, which those who frequent the performances you exhibit, imagine have not fufficiently taken up your

attention.

You will find we have pafs'd the more surforily over the former, that we might,